Nice fake cold last night. Min was pretty steady around 26⁰ for several hours, then rising slightly to 28 by 8:30, then to 46⁰ by 9:30 (up 17 degrees in an hour).
If it hasn't scoured out by you yet, wait a few minutes.
This isn't good for us wx types regardless of how you feel about CC:
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I got 9+ on the grass too. The 3 boards were all the same at 7.6. it's cool how consistent they were with no wind...easy measurement. There's no consistency on the lawn.
The snow caught in the 4" COCORAHS gage melted to 0.71". I haven't done a core sample yet, but this one time the gage may be close to the actual SWE because there wasn't even a breeze during most of the storm. It did get windy with some blowing snow towards the end. Definitely over performed on total liquid and snowfall. 7.6", which brings our season total snowfall up to 7.6".
6.5" as of 10:30. 1.2" in the past hour. 27.9⁰ Moderate to occasionally heavy snow continues. I'm about to drive over to Farmingville. Should be a bit of an adventure.
It's a snowstorm now after the nice, but relatively unimpressive continuous light half inch per hour stuff overnight. Temperature down to 28⁰ and the visibility is quite low in moderate snow.
Wind kicked up and temperature quickly dropped below 30. The sights are awesome with 6" of snow blowing out of the trees. Also the lowest vis of the storm right now even when it isn't gusting. Probably less than 1/2 mile (moderate snow)
5.3" here as of 9:30. Good shot at 6".
FYI, warning criteria here is 6", but not if they think the 6" totals will be isolated (or spread out over more than 12 hours) [edited for correctness]
There wasn't a lick of wind overnight. No air advection of any kind in the boundary so the temperature basically pegged at 32 almost everywhere it was snowing, or maybe 31 inland (it's cooling north of the LIS now). I haven't measured yet, but we have 4 or 5" in open areas and bare ground under the evergreens. There will be a lot of snow blowing out of them when the wind picks up.
Has anyone noticed that the temperature sensor at ISP has been running consistently a couple of degrees warmer than everywhere around them? Might be time for the NWS to do a calibration.
We're on the board. 0.1" as of midnight. 32⁰
Exit off the Sunken Meadow for 25a East is completely snow covered. North bound parkway was starting to cover on the north side of overpasses. That little extra shade during the day makes a difference.